Son’s ashes lost in the mail

Randy Lindsay holds the stamp and address label from the package that held his son's ashes.(Michael Richard / WFAA)

Randy Lindsay feels like he’s lost his son twice, WFAA-TV in Dallas reports.

Joshua William Lindsay, 23, was shot and killed last February in North Carolina.

Randy Lindsay told the station he drove his son’s ashes from North Carolina to his home in Missouri. In late June, he came to Texas, where he’s staying with a sister in Forney.

He said that a week into his stay, he realized he should have brought his son’s remains with him, so he asked another sister to ship the urn to him.

She mailed the ashes on July 5, but they’ve yet to arrive. he told the station.

On July 25, a form letter from the U.S. Postal Service did arrive. “Dear customer,” it read. “An empty wrapper with your address was found in the mail, and it’s believed to have been separated from a parcel during handling.”